Eggplant Emoji
Food
A deep purple eggplant with a green stem, depicted in a stout, oblong shape. While it is botanically a nightshade, its form has become one of the most recognizable icons in digital communication.
Usage Context
Though intended as a simple produce item for recipes or grocery lists, it is almost exclusively used in modern messaging to represent sexual innuendo. It is frequently sent alongside the peach emoji to signal flirtatious intent or explicit conversation.
History
Included in the initial wave of Japanese emoji sets, the eggplant was originally meant to represent a standard food item. Its shift into a ubiquitous piece of internet slang took hold in the early 2010s, eventually forcing platforms like Instagram to temporarily restrict its use in search and hashtag functions to curb inappropriate content.
Details
Glyph
🍆
Unicode
U+1F346
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f346:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Food
Subcategory food-vegetable
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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